be a sucker punch to the middle class, whether it was seniors on medicare or investing in our kids' education. all in all, i thought it was great for the american people and further crystallized the issues here. >> i'm trying to find the must-read i didn't get to before about his expressions. oh, frank bruni, "new york times." seldom have the words -- it's sort of like bless your heart -- seldom have the words, my friend, been laced with so much arsenic. joe biden used them again and again thursday night in reference to paul ryan even as he painted the young congressman as shallow and misinformed. seldom has a split screen yielded such vigorous facial calisthenics. when ryan talked, biden smiled with disbelief. he smiled even wider with derision. he whipped his head this way and that, laughing scornfully, glancing heavenward in exasperation, it said everything about his strategy in the wake of president obama's soporific performance in denver. biden wasn't going to be accused of underreacting. he was going to react all over the place, with his expressions, his exclamations and plenty of inter